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First Social Media Site (1997)
SixDegrees.com was created. A site where you could create a profile page, list of connection and had messaging capabilities. -
Hot or Not
AmiHotorNot.com was a site where users would upload photos of themselves and others would score their attractiveness. -
SixDegrees.com shut down
SixDegrees.com website shuts down. -
Friendster Launch
Originally created to be a dating website target for setting up mutual friends. The platform included features such as status updates, mood and messaging. -
Skype Launch
Skype launches as a messaging and voice calling service with video call capabilities. -
Myspace Launches
Myspace was a social media platform that featured highly customizable profiles that were accessible by the public. -
Facebook Launch
Facebook would go-on to become one of the most popular social media services in history. It featured custom profiles, instant messaging and video calling. -
Reddit Launch
Reddit Launched in 2005. This social media platform is styled like a nexus of forums and discussion boards for a uncountable amount of subjects with a rating scale. -
YouTube Launch
The social media site YouTube is platform where any user can upload a video of their making to the site. -
Twitter Launch
The social media platform Twitter launches. Twitter is a social media site where users can upload a message with limited number of character usage to the public forum of the site. -
LinkedIn Launch
The social media platform known as LinkedIn launches. LinkedIn offered premium packages for its users and it would go on to serve a platform utilized for networking between users in the job/career space. -
Tumblr Launch
The social media platform Tumblr launches. Tumblr was the first of its kind and started the movement of the microblog on social media sites -
The Integration of the hashtag
With Twitter and other social platforms utilizing a character limit on their users post they utilized the feature of the hashtag which is characterize or categorize the post to a certain topic. It is often associated with social movements and current evets. -
Sina Weibo Launch
Sina Webio, AKA Weibo, a Chinese microblogging social media platform launches. -
Emoji adopted in to Unicode
While the emoji first appeared in japan digital culture in 1999 with apple and google shortly after adopting it into their platforms in 2000, Emojis became adopted into the unicode in 2010 -
Instagram Launch
The social media platform that was focused around picture and video sharing, Instagram, launches. -
Pinterest Launch
The social media platform ,Pinterest, launches. Pinterest is based around photo-sharing and saving while creating their own collection of saved images and share their collection or original images with other users. -
Snapchat Launch
the social media platform Snapchat launches. Snapchat is based around the featured of directly sending other users pictures taken by the sender that only last a certain amount of time. -
Tinder Launch
Tinder, a dating app based around users swiping left of right meaning like or dislike on pictures of people with a short description. -
Vine Launch
Vine, a social media platform based on sharing 7 second videos with other users on the site, launches -
Periscope Launch
Periscope, the social media site based around live streaming videos with other users on the platform, launches. -
Announcement of Vine shut down
Twitter announces that they will be discontinuing the Vine App. -
Instagram Launches Stories
While Snapchat is famed for their original use of the Story feature, where users can post videos or images with will be pinned to their profile for the next 24 hours, Instagram adopts this feature into their platform -
Social Media Fake News Crisis
In the year of the 2016 presidential election, content that was either false or misleading flooded social media sites whether is was made for comedic or persuasion purposes, large quantities of false new made its way into the mainstream of social media. -
Tik-Tok Launch
Tik-Tok, the social media platform based around sharing videos that would be scored to certain music or certain sound bites, launches.
